Projects
Trauma Aid Europe, its affiliates, partners and individual members are drawn from a global community of Trauma Response Networks and Humanitarian Assistance Programmes including UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Spain, Israel, Turkey and Greece.
Our combined regional projects completed and ongoing to date support provision of trauma expertise, trauma training, local trauma capacity building and trauma research include regions of the Middle East, Africa, South East Asia, India, China – Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Algeria, Syria, Tunisia, Cameroon, Egypt, Bosnia, Ukraine, Greece, Haiti, Kurdistan, Lebanon Beirut, Turkey, Israel, Iraq, Nepal, Gaziantep, Madaba.
Aceh Project / Indonesia
On December 26, 2004 the coasts of 12 countries adjoining the Indian Ocean were hit by a gigantic Tsunami. The Indonesian province of Aceh suffered the highest losses of human life, 160.000 people died, 500.000 lost their homes. Trauma Aid in this situation embarked...
Mekong Project 1
Numerous people in Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia suffer from domestic violence, sexual abuse, military conflicts or natural disasters. It is mostly women and children whoare affected. For these people, TraumaAid trained trauma therapists. The main objective of the...
Myanmar / Cambodia Project – Mekong 2
Natural disasters and civil and domestic conflicts – those are the main aspects of the living conditions of the local population in Myanmar and Cambodia. These often result in serious psychological consequences, an issue largely not addressed by the authorities. The...
Northern Iraq / Kurdistan Project
In 2016, a three-stage EMDR course, organized with the Jiyan Foundation, took place with over 30 participants. This year, another group of 38 therapists from all 6 of the Jiyan Foundation centers located in Kurdistan will come together for training. Trauma Emergency...
Myanmar / Cambodia Project – Mekong 3
The third Mekong project for Myanmar and Cambodia started in early October 2017. This project is the logical consequence of the structural measures to establish EMDR therapy in Cambodia.It includes the further development of the Psychotherapeutic Centre in Phnom Penh...
Lebanon Project
Lebanon is a country that has suffered from ongoing traumas such as wars, internal conflicts and natural and man-made disasters for many decades. The people on this lands have been exposed to these traumas and more. Some have been able to adapt and recover from the...
Kurdistan Project
Trauma Aid successfully conducted three seminars in Northern Iraq-Kurdistan in 2017 and 2018 for social workers and psychologists who care for children and young people in refugee camps near Erbil. The "TPSS+" seminars are intended to contribute to this and ensure...
Rwanda Project – Burundi
Since the genocide of 1994, large sections of the population still suffer from severe traumadisabilities. Because the country has only some very few psychiatrists and a limited number of psychologists, traumatized persons are treated and looked after by social...
Project Kenya Trust
In 2007 the first EMDR training took place in Kenya. Unlike other EMDR projects worldwide, Kenya has always involved permanent locally based EMDR therapists. This enabled solid local knowledge, trust, cultural adaptation, local supervision and EMDR practice in...